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Originally Posted by Sheva #7
The momentum started swinging after both lucic penalties that were scored on. Not sure how scoring 6th and 7th goal affects the game that is already out of hand, so Lucic's penalties clearly affected outcome of the game. Even Pavelski and Bowness said so in their post game interviews. Those goals were huge and Lucic gifted them both PPs
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One was a bad call where the ref gifted them a powerplay. The other was an unlucky break that happens all the time.
They scored. In the alternate universe where those penalties don't happen, we could have still given up a goal or two in that time span to swing momentum, but I'm not a big believer in hypothetical 'momentum'.
If it was a tight 1-1 game and then someone takes a bad penalty in the offensive zone in OT that costs the game, that theoretically impacted the outcome more than anything else.